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Abstract
Surface roughness is the one of the critical performance parameter that has been effect on several mechanical properties of
machined parts like friction, wear, light reflection, heat transmission, lubrication, electrical conductivity, etc. Hence this paper
present the surface roughness like Ra,Rq and Rz of Al-SiCp metal matrix composite (MMC) during electric discharge machining
(EDM). In order to achieved the desired surface roughness the experiment has been planed based on central composite design
(CCD) method with three EDM parameters such as pulse-on time (TON), peak current (Ip), and flushing pressure (Fp). In this
paper describes the mathematical modeling for response surface methodology (RSM) and fuzzy logic modeling technique to
prediction themeasuring surface roughness (Ra,Rz and Rq) of Al-SiCpmetal matrix composite (MMC).Also the performance of the
experimental result is compared with the developed fuzzy models and RSM mathematical models and it clearly indicates that the
Fuzzy models provide more accurate prediction in compared to the RSM models. Finally the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
technique is carried out to check the significance of the models and study the effect of process parameters.
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Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Conference Committee Members of 5th International Conference of Materials
Processing and Characterization (ICMPC 2016).
1.Introduction
Surface finish is an important attribute of any machining operation. To achieve this high quality, surface finish,
dimensional accuracy work piece, high production rate, economy of machining in terms of cost saving and increase
the performance of the product with reduced environmental impact are the main and effective challenges of modern
Non-traditional machining process. [1-2]. EDM machining consider as a Non-traditional machining processes is the
most widely and successfully applied for high precision surface finishing process of various conductive materials
regardless of their mechanical properties .Basically In EDM the surface roughness mainly depends on the
bombardment of high energy electron on the electrode surface as result near about a temperature 10,0000C is
developed between the tool and work piece during the sparking. At this high temperature the material are melts and
vaporized with leaving the crater on the surface. Also due to flushing of dielectric the surface near the electrodes
rapidly cool that sparking zone . This rapid cooling and heating cause distinctive surface morphology on the
machined surface. [3-4].
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Corresponding author. Rajesh Kumar Bhuyan, Tel.: +91-9938513183.
E-mail address:rajesh_bhuyan001@rediffmail.com
Meanwhile to improve surface roughness in EDM Process, it is necessary to select the appropriate process
parameters to get the highest performance for desired dimensional accuracy with improved the surface quality.
Among the several attempts by the researcher Pargunde et al. [5] developed an Al-based SiC MMC using stir
casting method. They fabricated the composite with Aluminum alloy 98.41% pure and SiC (360-grit) with a varying
weghit of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% respectively. They observed that the maximum Hardness, Density
(gm/cc) and impact strength at 25% SiC weight fraction. Satyanarayen et al. [6] used stir casting technique to
prepare the aluminum LM25-SiC composites with added the 3%, 6% and 9% of weight percentage of SiC. They
found that tensile strength and hardness increase with percentage SiC increase. Puhan et al. [7] investigate the mach-
inability effect of Al-SiC MMC prepare by powder metallurgy process during EDM. They are used four process
parameter like discharge Current, pulse duration, duty cycle, and flushing pressure on the material removal rate, tool
wear rate, surface roughness (Ra) and circularity. They optimize the process parameters by principal component
analysis (PCA) with fuzzy inference system. Also they stated that the hardness of MMC is increasing with
increasing weight % of SiC in the composite. Pradhan et al. [8] planned central composite design (CCD) method to
explained the effect of four process parameter like peak current, pulse on time, pulse off time and discharge voltage
on the surface roughness (Ra) during EDM of AISI D2 steel. They predicted the Ravalue by using the mathematical
model equation by RSM and the performances of the parameters are analyzed by ANOVA.
Rajesha et al.[9] using Taguchi L9 technique optimize the input process parameter like gap current, pulse on-time
and pulse off-time on the output surface roughness (Ra and Rz) of inside the hole and near the hole while EDM
drilling of Al 7075 MMC. Vishwakarma et al.[10] using central composite design method to optimized the process
parameter like pulse on time, gap voltage, flushing pressure, input current and duty cycle on the material removal,
surface roughness during EDM of AISI 4140 grade steel alloy. They developed the mathematical model by using
RSM to predicate the experimental result of the output. Khalidet al.[11] optimized the process parameter like
current, pulse on time and pulse off time on the output material removal rate, tool wear rate and surface roughness
(Ra) using fuzzy logic evolutionary strategies technique during EDM of the three different materials such as
stainless steel, C40 Carbon steel and SKD61 and stateproposed that this techniques is a benchmark to solve the
multi-objective problems. Kohli et al.[12] compare the experimental results of material removal rate with the result
generated by fuzzy model during die sinking EDM process of Medium Carbon Steel (AISI 1040) as work-piece.
They described that proposed fuzzy model result is close agreement with the experimental results.
Rao et al.[13]investigate the effect of current , open-circuit voltage, servo duty cycle on the responses like
material removal rate,tool wear rate ,surface roughness (Ra) and hardness HRB during EDM of AISI 64430
aluminum alloy. They predicted and compare the experimental result by using Fuzzy logic approach and stated that
the variation predicted values can be reduced by considering more fuzzy member ship functions with the selected
range of parameters. Shandilya et al.[14] using RSM and artificial neural network technique to compare the average
cutting speed of Al 6061-SiCp MMC during wire electric discharge machining. They observed that the ANN models
provide more accurate prediction in compared to the RSM models. Rodic et al.[15] applied Fuzzy logic and neural
net work modelling to compare the experiment result and predicated result of the surface roughness (Ra) during
EDM of manganese alloyed cold-work tool steel. They stated that neural net work technique predicated more
improvement forecast than fuzzy logic.
Based on the literature review this paper is focused on the EDM process with three input variables such as peak
current, pulse on time and flushing pressure of the material Al -SiC 12% MMC. The output responses are the three
surface roughness factors such as Ra,Rq and Rz. The objective of this paper is to compare the experimental result
with the predicted result by RSM and Fuzzy logic technology.
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2. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS
2.1 Work-piece materials
The metal matrix composite materials (MMC) are prepared by stir casting to fabricate the Al-SiCP MMC. The
commercial pure aluminum with 12% weight fraction of silicon carbide particle (SiCp) with the average particle
grain size is 0.0228 mm are used for the made up of the Al-12%SiCP MMC. The original size of the sample
specimen is prepared approximately 40 mm in diameter and length approximately 360 mm. After that each work
piece are prepared around 40 mm in diameter and 10 mm in thickness.
The experiment is conducted by Central Composite Design (CCD) methodto run the 20 no of experiments. To
run the experiments three process parameters are consider i.e Peak current (Ip) in Ampere (A), Pulse on time (Ton) in
Microsecond (s) and Flushing pressure (Fp) in Kg/cm2. Based on the literature survey the CCD method the ranges
of the parameters are selected with different levels as shown in the Table 1.
Levels
Parameters
-1.682 -1 0 1 1.682
Peak current (Ip) 3.2 10 20 30 36.8
Pulse on time (Ton) 116 150 200 250 284
Flushing pressure (Fp) 0.164 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.836
The experiments are carried out by Electrical Discharge machining of model MIC-432CS CNC
manufactured by ECOWIN at CIPET, Patia, Bhubaneswar. The tools are made of electrolyte copper electrode with
average diameter 25.4 mm for each experiment. The depth of machining of each work piece is 2mm .The surface
roughness of the machining surface Ra, Rq, and Rz are measured by MITUTOYO Surface roughness tester. The Ra
is measured the arithmetic average roughness of the evaluation length of the machining surface. It measured by the
following relation [16-17].
L
Ra = Y ( X )dx
0
where L=evaluation length
Y=The ordinate of the profile curve
Rq known as Root-mean-square roughness.
It measured as the arithmetic mean of the departure of the roughness profile from the mean line.
Y (X ) dx
2
Rq =
0
Rz average distance between the highest peak and lowest valley in each sampling length
1 s
Rz = Rti
s i =1
where S is the number of sampling lengths, and Rtiis the maximum height of the ith sampling length.
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The figure 1 show Surface roughness profile of the selected responses. Also the experimental result of responses is
shown in Table 2.
3. Methodology
Response surface methodology (RSM) is a set of mathematical and statistical techniques used to build the
empirical quadratic model equation.The primary objective of the RSM is to make a relationship between the input
process parameter and the outputs responses. The relationship between input process parameter and the outputs
responses arecommonly represented by a function ( f ) i.e.
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Where R is defined as the response and x 1 , x 2 , x 3 .......... .......... ....x n are the input process parameters.
Based on the above equation the second order polynomial regression model can be represented in the form of
quadratic equation for the three input process parameter such as
R = 0 + 1 x1 + 2 x2 + 3 x3 + 4 x1 2 + 5 x2 2 + 6 x3 2 + 7 x1 x2 + 8 x1 x3 + 9 x2 x3 (2)
Where 0 is a constant and 1 , 2 , 3 are the coefficient of linear effect of the input process parameters like
x1 , x2 , x3 respectively. For 4 , 5 , 6 are the coefficient of the square effect of input parameter themselves such
as x , x , x32
2
1
2
2 and 7 , 8 , 9 are the coefficient of liner by liner interaction among the input parameter like x1 by
x2 , x1 by x3 and x2 by x3 respectively .The coefficients value are get by an appropriate method such as the least
square method or Minitab Software.[18-19]
Based on the above discussion the following equations are represented the surface roughness of the responses and
the table 3 show the predicted result by the RSM.
Ra = 38.3120 - 0.1813Ton - 0.5019 Ip - 50.8117 Fp + 0.0002Ton 2 + 0.0081Ip 2 (3)
+ 17.3918 Fp 2 + 0.0022Ton * Ip + 0.1854Ton * Fp + 0.3490 Ip * Fp
Fuzzy logic is a multi-reasoning logical concept where the evaluation based on true/false, yes/no,and
high/low etc In the fuzzy-logic modeling the reasoning are defined in terms of human linguistic that is the common
reasoning for the decision-making of the situation problems. The linguistic variables are defined as in terms of
extremely small, very small, small, medium, less high, high, very high, very very high and extremely high etc.In the
fuzzy Logic Mamdanimodeling system mainly consists of data definition, fuzzification, implication, aggregation
and defuzzification. The data definition defined all the inputs and outputs data are to be consider for the selected
model. The fuzzification and implication the users developed the membership functions in terms of human linguistic
variables to generate the fuzzy rules. The fuzzy rules are described in the Mamdani model by if-then rule .Next in
the aggregations process mixed up the all output rules and the defuzzification process converts the aggregation
output to a single predicted value In this study three input parameters such as Pulse on Time (Ton), Peak current (Ip)
and flushing pressure (Fp) and three output responses likely Surface roughness (Ra,Rq,Rz) are selected for this fuzzy
model. The modelling is carried out by fuzzy interface system (FIS) as shown in Figure 2.The input and output
parameters are represented by linguistic variables or fuzzy membership function in the triangular shape. For the each
inputs Ton, Ip and Fp threelinguistic value or membership likely minimum, medium and maximum and for the output
nine linguistic variables such as extremely small (ES),very small (VS), small (S), medium (M), less high (LH), high
(H), very high (VH), very very high (VVH) and extremely high (EH). [13][20-21]
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The result of ANOVA test of the surface roughness is shown in Table 3-5. From the table it is concluded
that if the P value is less than 0.05 then the linear, square, interaction of the process parameter are significant and
95% confidences level. The R2 and Adj R2 are indicating the measure result goodness of fit for the model. It
significant that if it closes to unity the experimental result is better and fit for the model. The value of R2 and Adj R2
are for for Ra 97.19%, 94.66% for Rq 95.75%, 91.93% and Rz 95.38%, 91.21% respectively. The R2 and Adj R2
results concluded that the develop model is statistically considerable [22-25].
To compared the RSM and Fuzzy logic method the predictive result and the experimental results are
analyzed by their percentage of absolute error of the responses. The equation 6 is used for to find the percentage of
error on each experimental result. The Table 6-8 and the figure 3showthe average absolute percentage of error of
each response. It is analyzed that experiment 2 has been less Ra,Rq and Rz value .Hence the corresponding process
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parameter for the experiment no.2 is the bestinput process parameter i.e. Ton =250 s, Ip=10A and Fp=0.300 Kg/cm2
respectively.The average absolute percentage of error for Ra by RSM is 0.163 and by Fuzzy logic is 0.043 but for
Rqby RSM is 0.355 and for fuzzy logic is 0.184 although for Rz by RSM is 0.395 and by Fuzzy logic is 0.293
respectively.
(Predicted result - Experimental result)
% Absoulte Error = 100
Predicted result
(6)
Table 6. RSM and Fuzzy logic model for predictions the experimental result of Ra
Table 7. RSM and Fuzzy logic model for predictions the experimental result of Rq
Table 8. RSM and Fuzzy logic model for predictions the experimental result of Rz
5. Conclusion
The present work is to compare the surface roughness such as Ra,Rq and Rz of Al-12% SiCp MMC during EDM
process by RSM and fuzzy logic technique. The RSM is an analytical method and fuzzy logic is a soft computing
method. Both the methods are simple and easy evaluation technique to predict the responses. The both methodology
give a close correlation between the predicted results and the experimental results but fuzzy logic technique give
less percentage of error in compare to RSM.Finally the significance of the each process parameter with the selected
response is analyzed by using ANOVA.
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